Cycle III Activities Organize and teach one class per year from your Path. Give assistance and Guidance to a minimum of three other circles and/or participate in regional/national/international Congregation activities. Assist and train other Cella members to organize activities and circles.

My basic orientation to AOL is that these are all service activities. I prefer consensus decision-making to top-down leadership wherever it is possible and have worked with that model in several organizations. It reflects, for me, the best of what feminism, systems theory, and conflict transformation have to offer, in terms of organizational decision making and leadership models.

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Organize and teach one class per year from your Path. I've taught (list in progress)

• Storytelling (Public Speaking -- Scholar/Teacher, Priestess Gathering)
• Rise Up and Call Her Name (Scholar/Teacher, Creatrix, six two-hour classes, 11 students, co-taught with Nancy Vedder-Shults, using the UU Pagan Curriculum of the same name)
• Fire-starting with stones (Earthwalker, Creatrix, Elements of Dianic Wicca Retreat)
• Goddess Flags (Collage, Creatrix, my studio)
• A microbiological history of life (Earthwalker, Scholar/Teacher, Cella Weekend)
• Water Aerobics (Movement Awareness/Fitness, Earthwalker, my back yard)
• Meditation and The Four Elements (Goddesses, All Paths, WisCon)
• Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My (Scholar/Teacher, Hallows Gathering)
• Familiar Art for your Altars (Creative Activities & Psychic Skills, Cella weekends)
• Cosmology (Scholar/Teacher, several sessions of the Cottage Grove Metaphysical Technologies Group)
• Ritual Drumming (Creatrix, Guardian, several Priestess Gatherings, MadisonRCGI Guardian programming)
• Psychic Integrator (Psychic Skills, All Paths, Cella Weekend)
• Builders/Growers/Shapers (AOL, All Paths, Cella Weekend)
• Dark Mother (Goddesses, All Paths, RCG-Local)
• Dianic Wicca (Comparative Religions , taught 8 classes of a proposed longer series; my disability stopped my being able to continue these classes, self-organized series)
• Feminist Theory -- Feminisms (Feminism, All Paths, Cella Weekend)
• Cultural Appropriation (Gddesses, All Paths, Cella Weekend)
• Conflict Transformation (AOL, All Paths, at Earth Conclave, Priestess Gathering, Matrilocal Circle)
• Consensus Decision Making (AOL, All Paths, Cella Weekend, Matrilocal Circle)

Assist/Guide 3 Other Circles and/or Participate in Regional/National/International Congregation Activities

Three Other Circles:

• Matrilocal Circle
• Elements Coven
• Touchstone Coven
• Ecstatic Coven
  

National and International Congregation Activities

• I worked at the Motherhouse (Of a Like Mind networking and other responsibilities).
• I did research about soil types (especially whether or not the "peat" presented a fire risk) for the Grove. I also gathered info about options for building a stone wall around the proposed sacred circle.
• I urged RCGI leadership to use letter-writing campaigns for fun(d)raising, and these have been used successfully several times since then.
• I initiated the raffles that have become a successful fun(d)raiser for RCGI.
• I provided commentary on the second edition of the Cella Training Program Workbook; one of my major proposals has been incorporated into the program: to have Cella students declare their interest in ordination at the end of Cycle II, to give plenty of time for student, advisor, and advising council to communicate about and work on any obstacles to the ordination.
• I co-organized two Cella Intensives.
• I provided information and offered encouragement and assistance to get an RCGI website going.
• I led the drumming for the Ordination Rituals at several of the Priestess Gatherings.

Assist and Train Other Cella Members to Organize Activities and Circles. I worked with other Cella members on AOL issues many times, including twice co-organizing Cella Weekends and twice co-organizing Cella Intensives, both times with my juniors and with my Cella Advisees. The first Intensive we organized was the first of the Intensives to make money above and beyond expenses, and many other groups have used our model since then to organize money-making Intensives. As mentioned above; I co-taught a class on consensus decision-making for my Cella group, thereby training other Cella members in this core feminist organizational model. A group that was in the process of forming a consecrated circle of RCGI asked me for a copy of the bylaws and group guidelines that I helped create when I co-founded Matrilocal Circle.